Focused research on the global home networks ecosystem and connectivity within the home for both service provider and retail market segments. Covers cable, DSL, FTTH, and Fixed LTE consumer premise equipment (CPE), with regional and country level data, as well as Wi-Fi, voice, and different access technologies.

The IHS Markit Set-top Box Intelligence vendor relationships database contains a record of which Set-top Box vendors are currently working with which pay TV operators, on a by-operator basis, for over 80 countries and over 500 operations.

This market tracker provides accurate data and analyses—including market size, forecasts, and market trends—to help clients make better business decisions in the outdoor small cell backhaul equipment market.

US telecommunications equipment maker CommScope will acquire Arris, in a $7.4B deal valued at $5.69 billion, with the difference comprised of CommScope’s assumption of Arris’s debt. As part of the deal, the Carlyle Group will make a $1M equity investment in CommScope for an approximate 16% stake in the new company.
CommScope’s CEO Eddie Edwards has claimed the two companies’ product lines are complementary, and that the combined company will “enable end-to-end wired and wireless communications infrastructure solutions that neither company could otherwise achieve on its own.”
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019.

Broadband World Forum has finally come of age, celebrating its 18th edition this year in what continues to be the annual meeting point for the broadband industry. Messe Berlin opened its doors to more than 4100 attendees from more than 1500 organisations that gathered to share, learn and promote anything broadband. Historically, Broadband World Forum has been a telco-centric show and that was particularly evident this year. For a market that is purportedly converging, the cable side of the industry was absent as it was busy attending Cable-Tec Expo on the other side of the Atlantic.

Worldwide unit shipments for wireless power receivers and transmitters are forecast to grow to around 2 billion units shipped in 2023. With the technology already achieving mainstream adoption in the mobile phone market, the scope of its application is expected to follow suit in other applications, such as laptops, tablets, wearables, medical devices, industrial and also automotive sectors very quickly

If you are planning to cover news and activities surrounding the IBC2018 media, entertainment and technology show in Amsterdam (13-17 September), IHS Markit media-entertainment industry analysts will be available for commentary during the event.

Wyplay has become the latest set-top middleware and UX vendor to embrace the Android TV platform, and market a custom launcher for Android TV’s Operator Tier. Debuted in Q1 2017, and formalized in the second and third quarters of the same year, Operator Tier affords Android TV adoptees considerably more latitude in designing a device’s home-screen, app carousel, icons, and content placement.

This is a market overview on the global wireless power supply market. This topical report provides an up-to-date assessment of the wireless power market, including analysis on market growth opportunities by type and application. This report is published in conjunction with the IHS Markit Wireless Power Market Tracker.

Adding small cells or low power nodes (e.g., microcells, picocells, and micro/pico RRH/RRU) to beef up the coverage and capacity of existing macrocell networks shows no sign of abating any time soon. In fact, after a low start lasting several years, during which service providers worked hard to understand how to deploy small cells in their networks, the market is booming and reaching the size of the stagnating DAS market, which since last year has been negatively impacted by multi-carrier small cell products designed for neutral host use cases—where DAS had long been the only option. Clients, please log in to view the full content.

This is the 2017 edition of the industry leading Power Adapters report from IHS Markit. The data contains updated forecasts for the global market for power adapters, with product segmentations by application and voltage, and data presented in units, revenues and average prices.